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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Melissa Keir's Christmas Anthology

Melissa doesn’t believe in
down time. She’s always keeping busy. Melissa is a wife and mother, an
elementary school teacher, a movie reviewer with WHMI (a local radio station),
owner of a publishing company as well as an author. Her home blends two
families and is a lot like the Brady Bunch, without Alice- a large grocery
bill, tons of dirty dishes and a mound of laundry. She loves to write stories
that feature happy endings and is often seen plotting her next story.

With Christmas almost here, I assume most everyone has
their tree up already. Luckily for me, my husband loves to put up the
decorations and put up our tree the day after Thanksgiving. It doesn’t hurt
that the tree is a fake one. We purchased it last year from a store which
specializes in cabin décor. So our tree has a real wood trunk and small
pinecones on the needles.

While the tree is new, the decorations aren’t. Both my
husband and I have some ornaments from our childhoods which we love to put on
our tree each year, as well as a few ornaments from our grandparents’ trees.
The memories associated with the ornaments make the holiday even more special
as we put them up. It’s like having our loved ones celebrating with us.

One such ornament is a colored glass ball with gold on
it. This came from my husband’s grandmother’s tree. She had them on her
Christmas tree each year but over the years, some of the bulbs broke and we are
down to only three left. From my grandmother’s tree, I have a red bird. It has
a long tail with glitter on it, not feathers. I can recall trying to pet the
bird in her tree as a kid. Thankfully, the bird isn’t breakable but still we
treat it like gold. Some of the ornaments survived more than children’s fingers.
My husband’s elf survived a flood which cost his brothers their elves.

By far our favorite ornaments are the ones that the
children made. The pompom snowmen and beaded candy canes. They remind us of a
time when little hands sought to help us decorate the tree and stared with
delight at the presents underneath.

Do you have a special ornament which you still put up
each year? What is your favorite ornament and why?

Thank you for visiting and Merry Christmas.

Brighten this holiday season
with seven stories from New York Times, USA Today, national bestselling, and
award-winning authors. Grab a cup of your favorite cocoa, coffee or tea, a
holiday treat and settle in with the authors from More Christmas Lovin’ for a
festive holiday read.

A sexy elf who hates everything about
Christmas is forced to be Santa and must go into the seething heart of
humanity—the abode of a beautiful single mother and her child in order to save
them.

An EverAfter Christmas by K.S. Thomas

Sailor Belle is no stranger to adventure,
so being stranded in a blizzard three days before her wedding, is not about to
stop her from marrying the man of her dreams. But then, as the obstacles keep
coming, she clings to her last hope - it’s the season for miracles, and she may
need one to get her EverAfter Christmas.

Holiday Homecomingby Melissa Keir

Two broken hearts mend as love blossoms,
but when danger comes calling, can the two loners learn to rely on each other
or will they lose all they have found?

Mistletoe & Ashesby RaeAnne Hadley

Tiffany knew the threats of being a
firefighter on the Hot Shots team. She embraced the heat and the danger, but she
could have never predicted that her heart and her mind would be in peril. Could
a Christmas miracle save her or would she end up as ashes?

Seduction at the Christmas Courtby Jenna Jaxon

Lord and Lady Longford have journeyed to
the Christmas Court of King Edward III to wait upon the king and take part in
some Yuletide merriment. When Geoffrey is suddenly called to war, and rumors of
his death arise, Alyse fends off an old suitor who wants to renew their
friendship. But how long will he take “No” for an answer?

All I Want For Christmasby Deb Julienne

Who knew one little boy’s Christmas wish
could change so many lives?

The Christmas Fantasy
by D’Ann Lindun

Widower Christian Vega believes he’ll never find true love
again, until an actress catches his eye. But she’s way out of this cowboy’s
league. Hope Snowden swears to never date another out-of-work actor again. Then
she falls for a cowboy-turned-stuntman. Is it love, or just a Christmas
fantasy?

Merry Christmas Melissa, I love how you have special ornaments that has history. Sadly, I don't have any. Oh, I do have a picture of my three children when they were little that we did glue to a Christmas paper. I do put them on our family tree every year. You have me thinking that maybe I should give an ornament to each of my grandchildren that they could keep and pass down to their own children - hmm. Thanks for the post and thought.

My former mother in law did that...She gave the children an ornament each year which talked about the year (baseball mitt for the year my son played baseball or a lighthouse for the year my daughter went to the ocean). They have those ornaments now and can begin their lives as adults with all those memories. :)

I used to fix up a small fake tree, only my cat kept biting the chord and shocking herself. After the third purchase of new lights, I called it quits and instead decorated my bay window with pretty large reindeer that my sister made for me. I still do that.